But… I’m not sure what behavior that was, since later I re-thought that what happened was probably:
– daughter is asked to tell what a picture of a car represents
– she knows it’s a car
– but she doesn’t know how to say word car (“auto”, it has nasty T)
– it’s easier to say “brrrrmm”, so she uses that word.

Earlier we have asked (without a car picture), “what kind of sound car makes” and she replies brrrrm. So, when we point our finger to a picture of a car and ask what that is… it’s different question, but she successfully combines these two.

And of course as a parent I’m more than willing to fetch a baseball bat from the garage in case somebody wants to argue about things that my daughter does 8)

]]>By: Anonymoushttp://www.gameproducer.net/2011/09/26/emergent-behavior-and-why-game-devs-should-care-about-it/comment-page-1/#comment-146585
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:34:14 +0000http://www.gameproducer.net/?p=6041#comment-146585What happened with your daughter isn’t really emergent behaviour. Maybe, if you are talking in terms of the billions of simple neurons that interacted to produce that complicated behaviour. That’s emergent behaviour. The combination of the two words, and the mistake that the car was ‘vroom’, wasn’t emergent behaviour.

Anyway, enough trolling for now. You finished off with the basic concept…